by Jaime Grijalba Gomez

While Paul W. S. Anderson’s Resident Evil films continued to grow a stronger and stronger reputation among the most vulgar of auterists, another series — of Japanese animations, following the plot of the original Capcom video games — began to see release, providing a role of continuity or world-building that may or may not, in some way, be referenced in future installments of the survival horror narrative. In 2008, there was Makoto Kamiya’s Resident Evil: Degeneration, followed, in 2012, by Resident Evil: Damnation (also directed by…